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IGAP (International Genomics of Alzheimer's Project)

 
 
 
 
 
 

A collaboration involving 4 groups in the USA and Europe: - The European Alzheimer's Disease Initiative (EADI) in France led by Philippe Amouyel, at the Institute Pasteur de Lille and Lille University; - The Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC) from the USA led by Gerard Schellenberg, at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; - The Genetic and Environmental Risk in Alzheimer's Disease (GERAD) from the UK led by Julie Williams, Ph.D., at Cardiff University; - The neurology subgroup of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) led by Sudha Seshadri, at Boston University.

 

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Principal investigator or primary contact

 

Primary phenotype

Alzheimer's disease

 

Secondary phenotype(s)

 

Number of GWAS Studies Contributing to the Consortium

35

 

Approx. total number of subjects

60000

 

GWAS data available

yes

 

Key References and Articles

 

 
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